Vienna Digital Identity #27 - Decentralized IAM for IoT

Hello folks,

I would like to announce the 27th Vienna Digital Identity Meetup, on October 4th at 1830 CET / 1230 ET / 0930 PT.

Dr. Xinxin Fan, Head of Cryptography from IoTex will be presenting the Challenges and Opportunities in Decentralized IAM for IoT.

Dr. Fan will talk about the design considerations and challenges when applying DIDs and VCs to IoT, followed by the discussion of new opportunities for building decentralized identity and access management solutions for IoT. Finally, he will give a brief overview of the standardization effort conducted by the IEEE P2958 working group.

Bio: Dr. Xinxin Fan is the Head of Cryptography at IoTeX, a startup focusing on building the next-generation blockchain infrastructure for the Internet of Trusted Things (IoTT). He is responsible for directing the company's strategy and product roadmaps as well as developing the core technologies and IP portfolio. Before joining IoTeX, he was a senior research engineer of the Security and Privacy Group at Bosch Research Technology Center North America. Dr. Xinxin Fan received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2010. He has published 50+ referred research papers in top-tired journals, conferences and workshops in the areas of cryptography and information security and is an inventor of 15 patent filings for innovative information security and privacy-enhancing technologies. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) from (ISC)² and a (co-)chair of IEEE P2418.1 and IEEE P2958 standards working groups.

I hope you can join us!

Best regards,

Michael Shea.